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Major Bergan—to give him the title by which he was known throughout the country round—displayed no alacrity1 of welcome. He first scanned his visitor closely from head to foot, and then silently extended his hand for the letter which the young man had drawn2 forth3 from an inner pocket.
"Hold that light here!" were his first words, in a tone deep as a thunder-peal, and addressed not to Bergan Arling, but to the aforesaid torch-bearer. "And quit your staring, and mind your business, or I'll—"
The sentence died away in an inarticulate growl4, but the boy was plainly at no loss to understand its purport5. With a startled look, he fixed6 his eyes on the torch, and only ventured to withdraw them for an occasional, furtive7 glance at the object of his curiosity. Meanwhile, his master opened the letter, and read it deliberately8 from beginning to end. The light of the torch fell full upon his face as he did so, giving Bergan Arling an opportunity to study him, in his turn.
His face was a striking one; in youth it had doubtless been handsome. Now, his brow was too massive, his mouth too stern, his eyes too cold, his beard too gray and heavy, to bear any relation to mere10 personal beauty. All soft lights and lines had long gone out of them; what remained was hard, bold, and rugged11, as a rocky headland in winter. The rude strength which was the marked characteristic of his form, repeated itself emphatically in his face. Comparing it with the mental portrait, carefully touched and retouched by his mother's hand, which Bergan had carried in his mind since childhood, he felt that the one resembled the other only as a tree in autumn, stripped bare of its
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softening
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satire
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rascal
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momentary
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glimmer
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splendor
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impatience
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kindle
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savagely
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hearty
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courteous
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glimmers
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bidder
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warriors
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